Synopsis
Everybody Dies...
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.
2007 Directed by Jeremy Saulnier
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.
With its obvious ode to John Carpenter's Halloween and everything else that's retro slasher horror cool, Murder Party is the no-budget feature film debut from director Jeremy Saulnier, who took the indie world by storm in 2014 and opened a lot of mainstream eyes with his breakout hit Blue Ruin. While this comically darkly horrific tale about a guy who gets invited to a party you should never RSVP for is no Blue Ruin, it's a hilarious beginning for a director who will only get better with each movie. Krazy Kitty. Subway rap. The most bootleg Halloween costume in cinematic history. Never play with fire. Badass beards own mutton chops any day of the week. Baseball Furies' benchwarmer. Preservatives, can…
Shortly after Murder Party was released, a friend of mine suggested it and I promised her that I would watch it, well, 8 years later is better late than never!
Just yesterday I was talking with GhosTea about the idiotic proclamation that Eli Roth is the new Wes Craven (from an article that was written shortly after Craven's death). It's unnecessary for anyone to fill his shoes, we should be more interested in encouraging filmmakers to leave their own marks on the genre and that is exactly what the director of Murder Party is doing. With this and Blue Ruin under his belt (and his new film Green Room, which I am eagerly anticipating)--Jeremy Saulnier is making waves and leaving…
I've finally got round to watching the debut feature from director Jeremy Saulnier and while it was shot on a low budget and is fairly rough around the edge's, it's also extremely funny in places and shows a lot of promise. The kind of film where a lot of ideas have been thrown into the mix and while not all of them work, the success rate is pretty good.
Set in NYC during Halloween, the film stars Chris Sharp as Chris, a loner civil servant who lives alone with his cat Sir Lancelot. As he heads home on Halloween after stopping off at the video store for some horror films to help pass the night, he stumbles over a small…
u don't always need so much plot. sometimes u just wanna call ur movie murder party and have a crazy, wild, hilarious chaotic, well, murder party. "don't make this political this is about art!"
This movie is good because art students deserve to be brutally murdered while high on crank.
Everybody dies, but death is best when Jeremy Saulnier is at the helm.
Me after watching this: "Ughhh... OK then?"
Other reviews on Letterboxd: "oh, what a wonderful satire of NY art scene!"
Basically, I guess I just don't hate art students as much as everyone else? Or I don't care enough to find this movie as entertaining as most people do? I'll just stick to Blue Ruin, Green Room, and Saulnier's future films. Who else is excited for Hold the Dark?
Fühlte sich für mich und ob seiner Laufzeit ein wenig länger an, als er musste. Entschädigt aber mit einem doch recht saftigen Finale, bei dem auch schon mal eine Kettensäge durchs Gesicht gezogen wird. Letzteres ist insofern schon ein wenig lustig, wenn man sich die weiteren Werke Saulniers ansieht, die mit ihrer Gewalt so wohl dosiert umgehen und eben deshalb so viel schmerzvoller wirken. Als noch etwas ungelenkes, aber durchaus versiertes Frühwerk und Kammerspiel-mit-Kunstblut-Koks-und-Medium-Kunstsatire-Happen für zwischendurch: ok. Allzu viel mehr sollte man aber nicht erwarten.
What seemed like yet another torture porn movie quickly morphed into a pretty amusing satire on the New York art scene. The satire itself isn’t particularly sophisticated, merely highlighting the ridiculousness that surrounds modern art and the one-upmanship of the artists, but whilst the targets are easy it doesn’t stop the film from being entertaining.
Murder Party may have a victim/hero but he is merely a bit player to the artists who intend to kill him in order to win a lucrative arts grant. Although there is a reasonable amount of bloodletting the film is more interested in telling jokes at the artist’s expense as they become more preposterous and more like caricatures as the night progresses. It’s a very slight film, and probably won’t stand up well to repeat viewings, but for a low budget feature the script is sharp, the performances are solid and it rarely outstays its welcome.
in my experience no satire of pretentious art students ever works because the satire creator never sees themselves as one of the pretentious ones.
An art collective invites an unwitting Joe Blow to his own murder on Halloween, but best-laid plans fall through upon discovering they're as brickheaded as their victim.
After a start that's raring to go, this horror comedy quiets into lots of character-driven talk that's just not my type of humor. The cardboard-clad man's captors in-fight and ruminate over intellectual claptrap (along with an awful inclusion of an awful epithet) while on various drugs and truth serum. Subtext seems to be the preception of art students mulling more over creation than actually engaging in the process.
Murder Party picks back up after the group's tensions boil and ropes loosen, but the mayhem is little reward for its sagging midsection. Pretension isn't much fun even with some melting faces and corded chainsaws. Watched via Magnet Releasing's DVD.
"I've been meaning to talk to him about getting a grant" -Everyone,
So based on a friend's recommendation, I am going to watch the four feature-length films of Jeremy Saulnier. Let's do this.
A lonely guy gets a random invitation to go to a halloween party and goes. The party guests have trapped him in order to kill him for the sake of art. Lots of clever but only occasionally funny observations are made about artists and graduate students. Murder Also. It's the sort of movie that people like to use the word "deconstruct" when describing. I think it's worth watching and fine.
Alex Barnett, who apparently doesn't really act that much (?) does a really solid job as the…
It has some small stretches of boredom, but Murder Party has a very funny way of using its dialogue to keep the story moving forward and when it arrives at the climax it truly lives up to its title! 7/10
i thought it was gonna be a bad movie that's so bad its good but noooooo. like wtf was that n - word scene ?!??!
For some reason I kept getting Cecil B. Demented vibes from the art kids.
Definitely wasn’t expecting the comedic tone after already watching Saulnier’s other films.
It was more fun when it got gory.
I don't even know why I watched this movie. Had to give it 2 tries to get through it, and even then I found myself wholely uninterested. I think the biggest problem is that there isn't really anything to draw you in. The MC has less than no personality, the side characters are too erratic and the plot may as well be non existent, stuff just happens. This movie is under an hour and a half and yet it still felt too long for what it was. Add to that the shaky special effects and visuals, and there just isn't really much to love here. The only real saving grace it has is that it's occasionally funny, but honestly, not nearly funny enough.
Definitely late on this one. A dollar tree DVD worth a buck! Low budget silly fun.
31 Days Of Halloween 2020
9/31
Definitely late on this one. A dollar tree DVD worth a buck! Low budget silly fun.
31 Days Of Halloween 2020
9/31
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